Decolonising the Gaze

Connected within that Light: Reading/Theory Group Series with Kathy-Ann Tan

This reading group series is entitled Decolonising the Gaze. In this final session, we will collaboratively read and discuss Mark Sealy’s ideas in his recent book Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time (2018) and bring them into relation to two artistic positions.

The session will take place online via Zoom or at the Gropius Bau. Further information will follow shortly.
To participate, please send an email to readinggroup@gropiusbau.de until 26 April 2022.

This final session that wraps up the first three gatherings on Decolonizing the Gaze takes as its point of departure Mark Sealy’s ideas in his recent book, Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time (2018). We will consider Sealy’s observations in relation to the works of two artists that seek to “look back” or refract the colonial gaze: Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa’s short film Promised Lands (2015), a fragmentary, essayistic meditation on art, memory, place and displacement, as well as Berlin-based artist Rajkamal Kahlon’s recuperation of colonial narratives and archives.

We will provide you with the information of a screening possibility of Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa’s Promised Lands (2015) shortly.

Texts
Mark Sealy, Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time, 2018

The sessions will be led in English but discussion in German is welcomed. Texts will be circulated in advance after registration closes.

Encompassing topics such as intersectional feminism, the agency of bodies, colonialism and the nature of care, the reading/theory group Connected within that Light loosely complements the Gropius Bau’s exhibition programme in 2022. Sessions are facilitated by Berlin-based independent curator, writer and scholar Kathy-Ann Tan.

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